HTML to Text Converter
Paste HTML or an entire web page source and instantly get clean, readable plain text with tags removed, entities decoded, and whitespace collapsed — plus live word and character counts.
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Conversion runs entirely in your browser — your HTML is never uploaded.
How to use HTML to Text Converter
The HTML to Text converter strips every HTML tag from your markup and returns clean, readable plain text — entirely in your browser. Paste a fragment, an email template, or a full page source and instantly get the human-readable content with <script> and <style> blocks removed, HTML entities decoded back to real characters, block elements turned into line breaks, and runaway whitespace tidied up. Because all parsing happens locally with no network request, even sensitive markup never leaves your device.
- Paste your HTML markup into the input box — a fragment or a full page source both work.
- Click "Convert to Text" to strip the tags and decode entities.
- Review the clean plain-text output alongside its word and character counts.
- Use the copy button to grab the result, or "Clear" to start over.
Your data never leaves your device — 100% private processing.
How the conversion works
The converter walks your markup and removes content that is never shown to readers — <script>, <style>, <head>, and comment nodes — then turns block-level elements into line breaks so paragraphs and list items stay on their own lines. Remaining tags are stripped, HTML entities are decoded, and consecutive spaces and blank lines are collapsed. The result is the same text a browser would render visually, minus the formatting. Everything runs client-side using pure string processing, so there is no upload and no size limit beyond your browser memory.
HTML entities and special characters
HTML encodes reserved and non-ASCII characters as entities: & for &, < for <, for a non-breaking space, and numeric forms like ' or ' for an apostrophe. Plain text does not use these, so the converter decodes them back to the literal character. Both named entities (a curated common set) and numeric references (decimal and hexadecimal) are handled, while unrecognised sequences are left untouched so nothing is silently corrupted.
Worked examples
Strip tags from a paragraph
Inputs: <p>Hello <strong>world</strong></p>
Result: Hello world
Decode entities
Inputs: <p>Tom & Jerry '90s</p>
Result: Tom & Jerry '90s
Separate paragraphs
Inputs: <p>One</p><p>Two</p>
Result: One\nTwo
Glossary
- HTML tag
- A markup instruction wrapped in angle brackets, e.g. <p> or <strong>, that tells a browser how to structure or style content.
- HTML entity
- An encoded representation of a reserved or special character, such as & for & or for a non-breaking space.
- Block element
- An element such as <p>, <div>, or <li> that starts on a new line; the converter turns these into line breaks.
- Plain text
- Unformatted text with no markup — just characters, spaces, and line breaks.
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Why use HTML to Text Converter?
- Remove all HTML tags in one click, including <script> and <style> blocks
- Decode named and numeric entities (&, , ') back to real characters
- Preserve readable structure by converting <p>, <br>, and <li> into line breaks
- Collapse messy whitespace and blank lines for clean, copy-ready output
- Live word and character counts on the converted text
Common use cases
- Extract the readable body text from a marketing email or newsletter template
- Clean scraped HTML into plain text before importing it into a spreadsheet or model
- Pull copy out of a CMS export or rich-text field for proofreading
- Strip formatting from pasted content before sending it somewhere plain-text only
- Quickly check what text a screen reader or search engine would read from markup
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